Shoe-fastening



(No Model.)

P. FLAD.

VSHOE FASTBNING. t

No. 325,522. Patented Sept. l, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT @rrica PHILTPVP FLAD, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

sHoE-FAsTE'NiNe.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,522, dated September 1, 1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, PHTLIrr BLAD, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoe-Fastenings, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specilication and accompanying drawings, in which the gure is a perspect-ive View of a shoefasteuing embodying` my invention.

The nature of my invention is a novel fastening for a boot or shoe, formed of a number of catches connected and operated in such manner that they may be simultaneously released, and when they are engaged with t-he buttons or studs they are rmly held in position, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawing, A represents a shoe of well known form. B represents a number of hooks which are pivoted to one ap of the shoe, and C represents a series of studs, or` in lieu thereof, buttons or eyes,which are connected to the other iiap and so disposed that they may be engaged by the hooks B.

The hooks are connected by links, straps, or cords D, and the upper hook is provided with a handle, E, whereby the hooks may be readily raised, it being noticed that the several hooks are movable as one.

To the bottom hook is attached a spring, F, which is secured to a proper part ofthe upper of the shoe; or, if desired, each hook may have a spring attached to it.

lt will be seen that each hook may be counected with its respective stud, thus fastening the shoe, the spring F holding the hook in engagement with the stud. Then the shoe is to be unfastened or opened, the handle E or upper hook is pulled upwardly, whereby the several hooks are simultaneously withdrawn from the shanks of the studs, and thus cleared, so that the flaps are unfastcned, and the shoe is accordingly open.

The heads of the studs are rounded or made conical, so that in fastening the shoe the ends of the hooks may ride over the same, and thus drop behind said heads and engage with the shanks or necks thereof.

The spring is covered by a piece, G, of leather or other suitable material, which is secured to the upper and adapted to conceal said spring.

In order to hold the handle E in upright position and prevent it from dropping and shaking, I employ an eye, H, which is attached to the upper catch, and a rod or piece of wire, J, which is connected with the handle E, or constitutes the shank thereof. The lower end of said rod is attached to one of the catches, (in the present case the fourth,) and the upper end thereof is passed through the said eye H, so that the draft on the handle will lift and release the catches as one, the rod J ]j laying in said eye as a guide.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An improved fastening fora boot or shoe, consisting of the pivoted hooks B, connections D for said hooks, stud C, and spring F, arranged as shown, to keep said hooks normally in engagement with the said studs, substantially as described.

2. The hooks B, having the connections D,

in combination with the studs C, and handle E, having rod J, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

An improved fastening device for a boot or shoe, having pivoted catches or hooks and studs, said hooks being connected and adapted to be operated simultaneously, a spring connected to the lower hook and adapted to keep the hooks in engagement with said studs, a handle attached to one of the hooks, and a rod attached to the handle and one of said catches, all of said parts being arranged and combined substantially as described.

PHlLlPP FLAD.

XVitnesses:

J oHN A. Winnnnsnmu, A. l?. GRANT. 

